[Paul C. Jesup]

Your reflexive response is completely inoperable. The whole point here is, the cops were MANIPULATED into going into someone's bedroom through a ruse whereby they believed a criminal act that could take a life was about to happen. They could have been manipulated into...the basement...the attic...the linen closet. You miss the point. They didn't want to go into anyone's anything... someone set the cops up.

I live in the state of Georgia. We had a case go to state court of homosexuality long before the above case and even the conservative state supreme court of Georgia said that government should stay out of the bedrooms of consenting adults.

[VRWCmember]

We had a case go to state court of homosexuality

Talk about a frindly venue!

[irishjuggler]

even the conservative state supreme court of Georgia said that government should stay out of the bedrooms of consenting adult.

Good for Georgia, but it's not the job of the U.S. Supreme Court to decide what the government should or should not be able to do based on some vague concept of "staying out of the bedroom."

It's the job of the U.S. Supreme Court to enforce the Constitution. As Byron White, Scalia et al. have pointed out, it's absurd to believe that the U.S. Constitution was intended to require states to allow sodomy when sodomy was in fact clearly prohibited in the various states when the Constitution and its various amendments were adopted. If you, Paul C. Jesup, want a right to sodomy, lobby your state legislature to legalize the activity, but let's not pretend such a right is in the Constitution.

[NutCrackerBoy]

Government should stay out of the bedrooms of consenting adults.

As a general rule, governments in the form of police do stay out of the bedrooms because they have no reason to go there. Even if there are state laws against sodomy, for example, there is little enforcement because how would you know someone is having anal sex in that house, and who really cares?? In my state, moreover, I am against even having such laws. However, I am very sure the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit states from having laws against any particular bedroom behavior.

On that basis, Lawrence was decided incorrectly.

[tom h]

"I live in the state of Georgia. We had a case go to state court of homosexuality long before the above case and even the conservative state supreme court of Georgia said that government should stay out of the bedrooms of consenting adults."

And that decision was correct. But what the SCOTUS did was endorse a constitional right to homosexual behavior, through the privacy "penumbras" of the Constitution, instead of leaving an issue like this, which many believe to be moral, to be decided by each state.

Such is what got Justice Scalia so burned up. Not that a state would allow the behavior, but that the high court would consider it a something worthy of its consideration as a constitutional matter.

[gidget7]

Only as long as they KEEP it in their bedrooms. When they bring it into our living rooms, and worse, the classroom, the government should step in!